Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:48:37 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> To: Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf Message-ID: <199901202148.PAA61128@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:53:34 CST." <XFMail.990120085334.mikenguyen@sprintmail.com>
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>I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like >Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too >(when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the >analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host.conf) -- it seems >consolidating all that config information would in one place would be a good >thing. I would really like to see this integrated into FreeBSD. Does anyone have any plans to do this? It would be really nice to be able to do lookups using hesiod or perhaps even LDAP. Btw, has anyone looked at nsd in Irix6.5? It is quite interesting.. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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